Toussaint's Private French Notebook

Superlatives

Fill in the blank with the appropriate superlative of the adjective in parentheses. ‘+’ is for ‘the most’, ‘-‘ for ‘the least’. Do not forget to make the adjectives agree in number and gender with the nouns they qualify.

The superlative is a form of an adjective expressing ‘the best’, ‘the smallest’, ‘the most interesting’.

To form the superlative, use the definite article (le, la, les) and the adverb plus or moins before the adjective.

The adjectives bon and mauvais have irregular patterns in the superlative. Note there are two forms for expressing ‘the worst’: the irregular form le (la) pire and the more commonly used le (la) plus mauvais(e).

Complete Tammy’s statements with the adverbs in between parentheses, using one of the French superlative forms or one of the comparative forms, as indicated. ‘+’ is for comparative indicating ‘more… than’, ‘-‘ is for comparative indicating ‘less…than’

The superlative is a way to express a maximum or minimum quality or capacity: ‘the fastest’, ‘the least fast‘: Le mieux (the best) and le moins bien (the least well) are the superlative forms of the adverb bien (well). (#4,8,11,12)